Forests Quotes - Page 35

• The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.

  Ruskin Bond

  Heart, People, Mind

  "The Name's Bond... Ruskin Bond". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Desert, Never Forget

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• In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

  Denise Levertov

  Cities, Growth, Arms

  Denise Levertov, Jewel Spears Brooker (1998). “Conversations with Denise Levertov”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love Is, Fire, Sparks

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need”, p.37, Random House

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• You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest,
  and I smile, and am silent,
  and even my soul remains quiet:
  it lives in the other world which no one owns.
  The peach trees blossom,
  The water flows.

  Li Bai

  Home, Other Worlds, Water

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• There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

  Charles de Lint

  Memories, Distance, Collective Memory

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• The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, House, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

  Walter Benjamin

  Ignorance, Feet, Cities

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.598, Harvard University Press

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• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Fall, America

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• Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Climbing, Mountain, Desert

  Giovanni Boccaccio, Charles Balguy (1822). “The decameron, or, Ten days' entertainment, of Boccaccio:”, p.148

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• Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

  Thomas Merton

  Wind, Tree, Said

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• A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

  Aesop

  Hands, Tree, Needs

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.180, Aesop

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• A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  May, World, Ecology

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2010). “The Word for World is Forest”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Be true to Love.
  Do not betray Her.
  Then, on the day
  that the forest of the mind
  bursts into flames,
  you will not run.
  You will remain silent and still;
  for this is when Love bears
  Her sweetest fruit:
  untouched Presence.

  Mooji

  Running, Love Is, Flames

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• Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.

  Mary Oliver

  Heart, Bird, Our Lives

  Mary Oliver (2006). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, p.45, Beacon Press

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• Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sea, Creatures, Loses

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• If you know the music the moment the violin string begins to vibrate, then you know how to navigate through the forest of brambles and entanglements with freedom and ease. If, on the other hand, you think that with practice the forest of brambles and entanglements will altogether disappear, then right from the beginning you are hopelessly entangled and won't find your way.

  John Daido Loori

  Music, Freedom, Thinking

  John Daido Loori (2009). “The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans”, p.169, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.

  Maria Montessori

  Real, Book, Sight

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• The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

  Ajahn Chah

  Letting Go, Song, Confusion

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• There are saints in the Roman Curia, among the cardinals, priests, religious, sisters and laity. They work hard, and also do things that are often hidden. I know some who concern themselves with feeding the poor or who give up their free time to work in a parish. As always, the ones who aren't saints make the most noise ... a single tree falling makes a sound, but a whole forest growing doesn't.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Giving Up, Fall

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• There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.

  Bill Mollison

  Hands, Water, People

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• When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mad, Needs, Caves

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.25, editionNEXT.com

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• Retreating from the world
  will not liberate you.
  Happiness is not found in
  a secluded forest hut or isolated cave.
  Enlightenment comes when you
  connect to the world.
  Only when you truly connect with everyone
  and everything else do you become Enlightened.
  Only by going deeply and fully into the world
  do you attain liberation.

  Guo Jun

  Enlightenment, Caves, World

  Guo Jun (2013). “Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen”, p.13, Monkfish Book Publishing

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• With One Spirit Medicine , you will discover how to dance between the visible, physical world of the senses and everyday tasks, and the invisible world of Spirit. You will be like the graceful jaguar, the balancing force of the rain forest who serves as an intermediary between the seen and unseen worlds as it journeys beyond death into eternity.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Rain, Journey, Medicine

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• An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

  Confucius

  Orchids, Appreciate, Fragrance

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